Musings on (and making of) stuff to wear, stuff to adorn, and stuff to cuddle, from my home in the woods.

May 04, 2008

My recent sewing projects

Here's what I've been up to, sewingwise:

The shirt is my adaptation of New Look 6621, and the skirt is self-drafted. You can't really tell from the picture, but the skirt has inside-out French seams, making nice vertical lines down the mid sides of the front and back (I got that idea from a Vogue pattern). The shirt is a bit brightly colored for me...I usually go for earth tones...but I had the material and was feeling ready for spring! It's a stretch cotton so it fits really comfortably and wrinkles less. I like the pattern and will use it again, now that I've made all my adjustments on it. The two pieces weren't necessarily meant to go together, but they teamed up nicely for the picture, I thought.

On to other subjects...Harry's in big trouble! Turns out he's been stealing from the neighbors. We were aware of a few mishaps..."borrowed" gardening tools and the like...but we got a call from a neighbor last night that Harry had chewed up his baseball mitt, and two of his bicycle helmets were mysteriously missing. One of the helmets was discovered this morning, its condition, shall we say discretely, a bit worse for wear. So...he'll be getting some new helmets and a mitt on us, and Harry will be a bit more supervised outside!